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The author describes the wide variety of disarmament movements in Western Europe. He examines the European Nuclear Disarmament movement (END) not as a model for all peace activists but as an original contribution—a source of inspiration amongst others. The efforts of this group have centered around a series of conferences organized to discuss their thought-provoking brochure entitled: Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament. The author provides a number of arguments in favour of non-alignment and discusses the fundamental issues involved.
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AbstractThe fall of the Berlin Wall has triggered a peaceful revolution of an unprecedented kind in Europe. Germany has become unified, the Soviet Empire has collapsed, the geopolitical balance has been deeply modified, and the will of the Central and Eastern European peoples for a “return” to Europe has made its reunification possible. Now the great challenge for the new generation of European leaders is to perfect the union of the European peoples through the free-willed organisation of peace and cooperation throughout the whole continent. However, the rebuilding of the European continent must not be performed at the expense of the idea of an ambitious European Union.
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Keywords: Conseil de l'Europe, patrimoine, interculturalité, UNESCO, Convention de Faro, Kosovo
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De la « maison commune européenne » à la désintégration du pacte de Varsovie... et à celle de l'URSS
More informationBy moving rather belatedly towards a controlled democratization of Eastern Europe's political regimes, Gorbachev and his team sought to carry out a vast and ambitious plan to transform the international order in Europe, a plan which was to yield considerable benefits for the USSR. The process having got out of hand, the USSR did not step in to preserve the objectives of its European policy which, at the same time, was seriously compromised. It attempted to adjust to Eastern Europe's new political situation by making, over more than a year, great efforts to preserve the existence of a transformed and renewed Warsaw Pact, seeing in it an indispensable transitory instrument for its new European policy. The collapse of Eastern Europe's regimes and the progressive disintegration of the Warsaw Pact largely contributed to Gorbachev's losing control of the political situation in the USSR and greatly accelerated its breakup.